Specialising In
- Adjustment problems
- Anxiety disorders
- Body therapies
- Childhood related issues
- Chronic Pain
- Depression and other mood disorders
- Grief and Loss
- Health and Lifestyle problems
- Personal Growth and Life Skills
- Positive Psychology
Languages: Afrikaans and English
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- Psycho somatic issues (Physical symptoms with emotional roots)
- Relationship problems
- Sleeping problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual problems
- Stop smoking
- Stress management
- Trauma and debriefing
- Weight control and other eating disorders
Specialising In
- Adjustment problems
- Anxiety disorders
- Body therapies
- Childhood related issues
- Chronic Pain
- Depression and other mood disorders
- Grief and Loss
- Health and Lifestyle problems
- Personal Growth and Life Skills
- Positive Psychology
- Psycho somatic issues
(Physical symptoms
with emotional roots) - Relationship problems
- Sleeping problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual problems
- Stop smoking
- Stress management
- Trauma and debriefing
- Weight control
and other eating disorders
Languages: Afrikaans and English
Treatments
Hypnotherapy is a form of psychotherapy used to create unconscious change in the patient by using hypnosis. Hypnosis is a subconscious process. Broadly speaking, hypnosis is a state of altered consciousness that occurs normally in every person just before he or she enters into a sleep state.
That is why hypnosis is usually accompanied by relaxation, simulating the relaxed position of the body during sleep. Your attention is more focused.You’re deeply relaxed and calm.You’re more open to suggestions, and less critical or disbelieving. The purpose of hypnosis is to help you gain more control over your behaviour, emotions or physical wellbeing.In therapeutic work, we prolong this brief interlude, so that we can work within its bounds.
There are different therapeutic modalities within clinical hypnotherapy namely Egostate Hypnotherapy, Ericsonian Hypnotherapy, Medical Hypnoanalysis and Integrative Hypnotherapy.
For more information please go to www.sasch.co.za
SE is an excellent therapeutic tool that can address trauma on a body level in a way that most of the conventional therapies can‚t do. By including the body in therapy, it fast tracks the processing of trauma for my clients.SE reads “body language” by working with physical symptoms, sensations and motor patterns in the present. It uses the trauma story to track physical reactions and let the body re-experience traumatic event in a safe way.It is releasing the highly charged “survival stored energy” of fight/flight/freeze reactions and let the “body talks”.
It is only used for well-known traumas like molestation, but also for incidents that can be very traumatic for the body like car accidents, medical procedures, attacks, and serious falls.
For more information, please go to www.traumahealing.com
TRE also address trauma on a body level. It initiates a discharge of the stored physical tension associated with the traumatic event. Tremoring is an inbuilt mechanisms
designed by nature to release the huge energetic charge that builds up in the body and nervous system of animals during the instinctual fight/flight/freeze response to trauma. Humans lost this natural ability and the basic premise of TRE is to give our bodies this natural ability back. TRE gets the body out of freeze by activating a tremor and shaking response.
The 6 stretching exercises of TRETM is helping to relax the core muscle and thus activate the back brain to start trembling as a discharge of the tension of the frozen trauma. Trembling starts as a discharge of the tension of the event and brings resolution to the over-charge of energy in the body. The tremoring is a genetic and instinctive reflex. It completes the incomplete fight/flight/freeze response and returns the body back to its normal rest and relaxation response.
For more information please go to www.traumaprevention.com
EMDR is used for individuals who have experience trauma that remains unresolved. When a traumatic or distressing experience occurs, it may overwhelm normal cognitive and neurological coping mechanisms. The memory and associated stimuli are inadequately processed and stored in an isolated memory network. The goal of EMDR therapy
is to process these distressing memories, reducing their lingering effects and allowing clients to develop more adaptive coping mechanisms. This is done by having clients recall distressing images while receiving one of several types of bilateral sensory input, including side to side eye movements.
EMDR is now recommended as one of the most effective treatments for trauma in the Practice Guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association.
For more information please go to www.emdr.com
It is another neuro-therapeutic technique using eye- movements to heal trauma memories. The therapist asks the client to follow the movement of a finger or pen with their eyes. EMI use 22 slow eye movement patterns: repeated vertical, horizontal, diagonal and circular movementsactivating neural networks to heal fragmented parts of trauma.Verbal reminders are given during the process to enable the client to maintain their focus and to stay in touch with the experience.EMI facilitates access to the multi sensory recording of trauma with all the associated emotional content.EMI is an effective treatment for all distressing and recurrent memories that create a negative impact on any person’s life. EMI is a therapy that gets the brain to move and to transform the memory of trauma.
EMI is astonishing rapid in its effects, freeing clients from the burden of unresolved memories of almost any form of trauma – from childhood abuse to car accidents; from rape to natural disasters to combat situations – in just one to six treatment sessions.
For more information please go to www.nlpco.com/therapy/eye-movement-integration-therapy/
For more information please go to www.bwrtsa.co.za or www.bwrt.org
The term energy psychology describes a new field of innovative interventions that balance, restore, and enhance human functioning by stimulating the human subtle energy system. Just as we have a physical anatomy —consisting of our skeleton, organs and glands, muscles and connective tissue—we also have an energetic anatomy—consisting of the acupuncture meridian system, chakras and nadis (energy centers and channels), and the human bio field. Energy psychology focuses on the interrelationship of energy systems, emotion, behaviour, psychopathology and health. These systems include the electrical activity of the nervous system, acupuncture meridians, chakras and bio fields. It works by stimulating energy points on the surface of the skin which, when combined with specific psychological procedures, can shift the brain’s electrochemistry to help overcome negative emotions, habits and behaviours.
Energy psychology theory suggests that psychological problems are a reflection of disturbed bio-energetic patterns within the mind-body system—a system that involves complex communication between a person’s neurobiology and their cognitive-behavioral-emotional patterns.
Energy psychology practitioners combine cognitive interventions (including focused awareness and mindfulness, imaginal exposure to traumatic memories and cognitive reframing) simultaneously with the
stimulation of one or more of the human bio-energy systems such as meridians, chakras and bio fields. It helps to balance the human energy system.
This powerful combination facilitates rapid positive change and optimal psychotherapeutic outcomes and is aligned with the latest findings from neuroscience and traumatology.
Energy Psychology modalities include therapies such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), and Life Alignment.
For more information please go to www.innersource.net/ep/
One of the most effective and deepest transformation method of today as it gives us a way of re-aligning ourselves with our authentic blueprint. The events of our lives that are imprinted into our cellular memory influence our emotional patterns.
Life Alignment gives us tools to identify and gain a broader insight into these habitual responses. As a result, we can break free of the revolving door of repeating patterns and step forward into a new more integrated life path. There is a place within us which can be relied upon for its innate wisdom because it sees a bigger picture. Life Alignment works with this inbuilt higher intelligence. It goes beyond mental concepts and reconnects us to this intelligence and our inner healing capacity. It helps us to answer the question “How can I use my gifts, my talents, so that I can better serve both myself and the world?”
A Life Alignment session will help your body and mind remember and put you back on the road to the destiny that awaits you. With a focus on the root cause of a symptom or condition, we can release negative beliefs and behaviours that are weighing us down.
For more information please go to www.life-alignment.com
Metabolic Balance is a personalised lifestyle program developed through 20 years of research by Dr Wolf Funfack, German Physician, and is aimed at restoring optimal health and sustainable weight management.
After an introductory consultation, a blood sample will be taken and your personal nutrition plan will be devised based on the analysis of 34 blood tests. The four phase program is designed to restore natural insulin production and proper hormone balance, ensuring a healthy metabolism.
Mind Balance is an innovative and highly effective program that has been developed by a Clinical Psychologist, Heleen Loubser, and addresses the role that the mind plays in establishing eating patterns and lifestyle choices.
There is a direct link between body and mind.
Thoughts, emotions and stress levels increase stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, leading to higher levels of insulin, resulting in cravings and unhealthy eating patterns. Mind Balance focuses on the conscious, as well as the unconscious mind, identifying stressors and breaking the link between these and your eating habits through a variety of therapeutic techniques, practical exercises and ongoing support.
Metabolic and Mind Balance is the answer if you:
- Seek a permanent solution to losing, maintaining or gaining weight
- Suffer from health problems related to excess weight or poor eating habits
- Are tired of the yo-yo effect of traditional weight control methods
- Wish to lose body fat while maintaining healthy muscle and connective tissue
- Long to eliminate cravings
- Suffer from stress which is jeopardising your health
- Are an emotional or comfort eater
You can either do the Metabolic eating program on it’s own or combine it with the Mind balance program as well.
For more information please go to www.metabolic-balance.com
– John Locke
– John Locke